Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke's fiancee, Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott, became at once a bonny, bouncing public favorite. High spirited, she slipped away from the dinner table at Drumlanrig Castle and turned on the radio full blast, startling her father the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry and his guests. Boomed the loud speaker: "It is with great pleasure that the King and Queen announce the betrothal of their dearly beloved son, the Duke of Gloucester, to Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry, to which union the King has gladly given...
...Three. Underlying Social Credit is the attractive British doctrine that, after all, there is nothing much wrong with the world. To blast Depression, say Social Crediteers, is as simple as any other sort of blasting once you know the trick. Major Douglas supposedly knows it better than anyone else. Possession of this Great Secret has somewhat oppressed the Major, caused him to write : "We all know Mark Twain's story of the man who was imprisoned for 20 years and then walked out, having just discovered the door never had been locked, and some of us think it funny...
...would like to ask horn-hating Cecil P. Brown if he has ever turned a corner to find his way completely blocked by playing children. Or has he come upon unmindful chickens or dogs, which I find usually respond to a horn's blast and scamper aside to safety...
Being one who detests needless horn-blowing, I still maintain there are times when the blast is quite as necessary as the brake...
...course, in a crowded city there is less excuse lor needless horn-blowing, but I feel sure that nearly everyone has owed his life at one time or another to the timely blast of an automotive horn. I uphold the saying "Rely on your brakes instead of your horn," but that axiom does not always apply. How does noiseless Mr. Brown expect to pass a lumbering motor truck on a narrow road? The driver would be only too glad to pull over if he knew someone wished to pass. IT IS NOT ONLY DISCOURTEOUS BUT DANGEROUS TO TRY TO PASS...